GUILLERMO VERDECCHIA,was born in Argentina and educated in Canada. He has sold shoes and cameras, waited tables, tended bar, taught English in France, and appeared naked onstage. He is now a (reasonably respectable and fully clothed) writer of drama, fiction, and film, as well as a director and actor.

The current Artistic Director of Cahoots Theatre Projects, a company dedicated to the development and production of new Canadian plays that reflect our country's cultural diversity, he is also the author of Fronteras Americanas (Talonbooks), a one-person play which received both the Governor General's Award for Drama and a Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Fronteras Americanas has been produced in theatres across the country and a short film version of the play written by and starring Guillermo, entitled Crucero/Crossroads, has received numerous awards at festivals around the world from Sundance, U.S.A to Huesca, Spain and Tampere, Finland. He has collaborated with Daniel Brooks on two highly successful theatre pieces: Insomnia (Scirocco) and The Noam Chomsky LecturesA Line In The Sand (Talonbooks), co-authored with Marcus Youssef received a 1996 Chalmers Award. His critically acclaimed book of short stories, Citizen Suárez, was recently released by Talonbooks, and he is currently working on a new prose project as well as stage and screenplays.. (Talonbooks), which received a Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1992 and was nominated for the Governor General's Award.

Guillermo lives in Toronto with his partner, Tamsin Kelsey; their children, Anaïs and Theo; and Baloo, their lovable, large and hairy dog.